sunset

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  1. noun The event or time of the daily disappearance of the sun below the western horizon.
  2. noun A decline or final phase: the sunset of an empire.
  3. adjective Providing for the automatic termination of a government program or agency unless deliberately reauthorized by law: a state-funded program with a sunset provision.

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  • It was evening, and whether the sunset influenced her letter or her letter drew her attention to the sunset is a point that probably will never be cleared up. —  Pilotage
  • There in the sunset was a towering conical mountain. —  Cube Route
  • Last night the sunset was a vision of loveliness, a sort of Pompadour paradise; the sky seemed full of rose-crowned AMORINI, and the moon wore a rose-coloured veil of bright pink cloud, all so light, so airy, so brilliant, and so fleeting, that it was a kind of intoxication. —  Letters from the Cape
  • Your sunset is not like my sunset, and I can't explain my sunset to you no matter how much I describe it. —  xenogere
  • A blind man describing the sunset might be a bad analogy. —  AutoHotkey Community
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  1. Early modern English sonne sett; from sun + set. Cf. sunsetting. Cf. Icelandic sōl-setr, sunset and sunrise.
 

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